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TIL That it in Idaho it is legal for cyclists to treat a stop sign as a yield sign, and a red light as a stop sign. This law commonly referred to as the “Idaho Stop”, and has not been adopted in any other state.

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neXl9 TIL The title character of Edward Bulwer-Lytton‘s 1828 novel Pelham, dandy aristocrat Henry Pelham, wore only black evening wear. The novel’s popularity resulted in black becoming the real life standard color for men’s evening formal wear, which it still is nearly 200 years later.
OmOe TIL Oxpeckers, the small birds you see in photos perching on antelopes & wildebeests (Elephants shake them off usually), were once thought to help by eating illness-causing ticks. It was found that the birds open wounds wider and drink the blood of their hosts - they’re parasites themselves.
dNPK TIl that if Apple didn’t hold $181B overseas, it would owe $59B in US taxes
D1pAV TIL a 55 gallons of peppermint oil will flavor 5 million sticks of gum.
KY6BJ TIL that there is a species of snake named after Professor Farnsworth from Futurama